Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Member of Parliament Catherine Gotani Hara has become Malawi’s first female Speaker of Parliament. Hara who is legislator for Mzimba North East amassed 97 votes to beat Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)… ...
Articles By Mwayi Mkandawire
Vice President Everton Chimulirenji is at the US-Africa Business Summit in Mozambique for his first foreign assignment as President Peter Mutharika’s deputy. Mutharika was invited to attend but he has delegated Chimulirenji to represent Malawi… ...
President Peter Mutharika will on Wednesday address people in Lilongwe for the first time since his re-election as Malawi leader. According to state broadcaster MBC, Mutharika will leave Chikoko Bay Mangochi for the capital Lilongwe… ...
The High Court in Lilongwe has ordered the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to avoid removing election documents from its website or destroying hard copies of the documents. The Lilongwe High Court Registrar issued the order… ...
The Computerized Tomography (CT) scanner at Kamuzu Central Hospital has been down for almost 10 months as it requires a replacement part that costs about K42 million. According to information reaching Malawi24, hospital authorities are… ...
President Peter Mutharika has accepted chiefs’ request for the Liwonde-Mangochi road to be called the Peter Mutharika Highway. Traditional leaders from the Eastern Region made the request at a Democratic Progressive Party rally which Mutharika… ...
UTM president Saulos Chilima has urged the party’s followers to join the June 20 demonstrations which Civil Society Organisations have organised to force Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah to resign. Chilima made the… ...
… One computer billed at K1.6million The Malawi Bureau of Standards (MBS) has come under fire for buying 49 desktop computers at K80 million. The bureau issued a notice in a local newspaper on June… ...
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested a former Procurement Officer at the Ministry of Tourism over K19 million cashgate. The man Oddoi Kamange was arrested on Tuesday in Lilongwe. The bureau says Kamange, in 2013,… ...
President Peter Mutharika has asked the Constitutional Court to remove Malawi Congress President Lazarus Chakwera as second petitioner and to strike out UTM leader Saulos Chilima’s petition in the Malawi election case. On Wednesday, Mutharika’s… ...
A court in Botswana has decriminalised homosexuality and Amnesty International has called on Malawi and other African countries to do the same. In a statement today, the rights group said Gaborone High Court’s decision to… ...
...MCP's coup will not succeed, rants APM President Peter Mutharika has accused Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader Lazarus Chakwera of trying to take over government by force. Mutharika made the remarks in a statement last… ...
The Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) Synod of Livingstonia has told Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to nullify last month’s presidential election and hold fresh polls in ninety days. The church said this in a… ...
Researchers at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland have developed a rapid test to be used in maternity wards in Malawi for testing GBS in pregnant women with the aim of preventing meningitis and sepsis… ...
President Peter Mutharika has warned civil servants who support opposition political parties against sabotaging government business saying they will be fired since the honeymoon of the last five years is over. The Malawi leader made… ...
